Navigating religious diversity

Exploring young people’s lived religious citizenship in Indonesia

Bibliographic Data

ID12601465
AuthorsBen Laksana (corresponding author), Ben K C Laksana (Department of International Relations, International University Liaison Indonesia, BSD City, Indonesia), B E Wood (0000-0003-3560-2194, Victoria University of Wellington)
Year2018
Volume22
Issue6
Pages807-823
Publication date2018-11-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Youth Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1367-6261 • E-ISSN: 1469-9680
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13676261.2018.1545998
OpenAlexW2901124072
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited36

Against the backdrop of several concerning reports which have noted growing socio-religious conservatism and intolerance amongst Indonesia youth, this study examined how school-aged Indonesian young people navigate encounters with religious difference in their everyday lives. Recognising the significance of religious and citizenship education curricula, the research included classroom observations and interviews with 20 religiously-diverse Indonesian young people in three purposively selected high schools in Jakarta. The paper reveals that participants in all three schools agreed that religious studies and their personal religious frameworks were central to their approaches toward religious tolerance. However, their lived everyday experiences of rubbing shoulders with religious ‘others’, expanded upon and critiqued the narrowness and rigidity of these frameworks and showed greater religious inclusivity. Through this analysis the paper integrates prior work on ‘lived religion’ and ‘lived citizenship’ to fuse a ‘lived religious citizenship’ concept, arguing that this adds depth to both fields by recognising that religion cannot be separated from the experience of being a citizen. A focus on lived religious citizenship provides a deeper account of individual identity and highlights the importance of qualitative studies focused on the living out of religion and citizenship

Aesthetics · Citizenship · Everyday life · Focus group · Identity (music · Indonesian · Lived experience · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Qualitative research · Religious education · Religious identity · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and Radicalism · Law · Psychology · Religious Education and Schools

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